Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Rents Peak in U.S. Housing Market Glut; New York Landlords Escape Drop

(Bloomberg) -- The glut of U.S. properties for sale is about to hit the rental market.

A record number of homeowners who can't sell condominiums and houses are competing for tenants with the country's biggest apartment owners led by Chicago-based Equity Residential, said Jack McCabe, the founder of Deerfield Beach, Florida-based McCabe Research & Consulting LLC. Rents in metropolitan New York, where demand for housing exceeds supply, may be the only place where rents increase, albeit at a slower pace, he said.


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